Professor Lisa Baldez’s Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s Rights is the winner of the American Political Science Association's 2015 Victoria Schuck Award, awarded annually for the best book published on women and politics.

Professor William Wohlforth’s new article, "Nation-building through war” (with Nicholas Sambanis of Yale and Stergios Skaperdas of the University of California, Irvine) is published in the May 2015 issue of the American Political Science Review.